Domedia Productions of Newport, R.I., has released a new documentary by Fr. Ken Gumbert, O.P., a Friar of the Western Province who teaches film studies at Providence College.  Entitled "Red Terror on the Amber Coast," the documentary chronicles the resistance the Lithuanian people gave to Soviet occupation during the years between 1939 and 1993.  Here is an excerpt from the producer's description of the film:

“Red Terror on the Amber Coast” documents the fifty-year-long struggle between the people of Lithuania and the Soviet KGB and their predecessors to impose Soviet control on a free and democratic, Western republic.  Using filmed interviews, archival photos and newsreel footage, it describes Stalin’s use of state-sponsored terror to destroy opposition, collectivize agriculture and industry, and create a single social class all under party control.  Some interviews record the long-term, armed resistance by organized partisans to the KGB and its troops. Others describe their experiences, as adults and children, of arrest, imprisonment, deportation to Siberia and the Arctic coast, and years as slave laborers in the mines and forests of the far East. 

For screening and purchasing information, email Fr. Gumbert.  Click here for an interview Fr. Gumbert gave about his project back in 2007.